Picking up the pieces
“The new reality,” writes literary prize-winner Rachel Cusk in her latest book, Aftermath: On Marriage and Divorce. “A plate falls to the floor: the new reality is that it is broken.”
As a 44-year-old mother of two living in Brighton who ended her marriage, I was interested to read Cusk, also a 44-year-old mother of two living in Brighton who had ended her marriage. The world is full of fortysomething mothers who have ended their marriages — what universal truths would Aftermath contain?
